Reflections on a Week in Oxford

When Bob asked me a couple of days ago to give this talk, he said it should be ``pithy and wise.'' When I spoke to Aris the next day he said it should be ``informal and funny.'' Then Elizabeth spoke to me and said it would be great if it was ``controversial and challenging.'' I mentioned to Aris just before dinner that I had put a talk together, and he said ``Oh, you've written a talk-I thought it would be something more spontaneous!'' Faced with an obviously impossible spec, I did what any reasonable programmer would do and rewrote the spec myself. So what I'm going to talk about this evening is a reflection on my week in Oxford.